Quebec City is located approximate 255 Km away from Montreal. In fall season,colorful arrays of trees on both side of highway make journey quite pleasurable. Inside Quebec city you find yourself among old stoned building which is kind of nice if you are coming from new age city where sky scrapper are build with glass and steel. Prominent places to visit can be divided in to two part one inside walled city and other on the periphery outside the wall.

Way to Quebec City	Quebec Parliament

Quebec parliament is humongous architecture built with stone, symbolizes glorious French culture. Interesting no Canadian flag is visible in this part of Canada for all obvious reasons. But this building score excellent on the scale of architecture and beauty.
Walled city is located on the top of mountain and give picturesque view of water front on one side and outer Quebec city on the other, this place has it all, mountain highs, waterfront (Saint Lawrence River), lovely surrounding, great heritage buildings.
Inside walled city external old house structures are maintained to recreate magic of old French times but insides have been converted into restaurants and shops to cater needs of 9 million visitor coming here every year. I would have loved to see street markets and shops recreating magic of old Quebec city but like everywhere commercialization has taken its toll on glorious past.In spite of all this, Quebec city is undoubtedly one of most beautiful cities I have been to.

View of Walled Quebec City	Saint Lawrence River

Hotel Le Château Frontenac is built on a tall cape tall cape, is symbol of Old Quebec city, it overlooks Saint Lawrence Rive giving spectacular view of vast natural beauty around Quebec city. This hotel has not only been part of french historical moments but also been silent observer to the second world war strategy discussions between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at Citadelle.

Hotel Le Château Frontenac	Wall painting

In addition to beautiful structures, Quebec city also displays various forms of art to visitors, if you notice carefully its a wall painting not actual people in their balconies
If you have desire and strength to climb on mountain top then Quebec city provides you ample reasons to do so, every single step towards top gives you a unique view of Lawrence river, ships and city below. It was worth going to the top when I could capture these shots.

View from top of hill

This journey will always stay alive in my heart and soul. As I wrote in previous post, some cities has their own life, Quebec city is surely one of them.